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Just 12 days until the party. If you are thinking of attending please fill out the poll in the member section so we can better plan. Thanks

As we wrap up 2024 and head into giving Tuesday on December 3, we just wanted to put the information out as a reminder that WAMAS is an IRS registered charity and any donations made to the club are 100% tax-deductible. You can find copies of the legal documents under the About WAMAS section of the website or clicking here and scrolling to WAMAS Charter section. WAMAS can provide a letter to acknowledge your donation for tax records. You can also donate to the general funds or specify if you would like to see your donations used towards supporting a specific project like grants to teachers or other education related projects; reef conservation projects; or other items within the realm of the club's mission statement. In the past WAMAS has supported many reef-related events and causes over the years such as the establishment of an endowment fund at NOVA Southeastern Univ. to support a marine biology scholarship; donations to: Coral Restoration Foundation; Great Barrier Reef Legacy & Forever Reef Project; Coral Morphologic Labs, as well as numerous smaller grant awards to support local teachers, students, and other scientific research. If you are interested in donating please send me or WAMAS Treasurer @scott711 a message, or you may send an email to treasurer@wamas.org to alert us to your interest and make arrangements. Checks can be mailed to: WAMAS P.O. Box 8831 Reston, VA 20195-8831

I told poster okay to post here given circumstances. Wish you well until circumstances may be different in future.

Welcome Paige. If you are available to attend the holiday part on the 14th in Fairfax, the club is giving out some free coral frags including some Zoas frags among other corals.

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Members coming to this event, please reply to this topic here to help us better organize event & share the potluck dish you plan to bring. Thanks

If anyone following along has any AIO tank experience, any recommendation which chamber in the filter area would be best to run the ATO sensor in? I had been running it in the return chamber of the waterbox. But, given the 3+ times an anemone has blocked the overflow slots - resulting in ATO pumping in water thinking tank low - I've now moved the sensor to the left side of the middle chamber. Thanks

WAMAS is hosting a 25th Anniversary & holiday party / potluck lunch for club members & their family! WHO: WAMAS Club Members & Family WHEN: December 14, 2024 Time: 12:00 - 3:00 pm WHERE: Green Acres Center, 4401 Sideburn Rd., Fairfax, VA FOOD: Potluck lunch WHY: You read that right, WAMAS was founded by Dr. Michael Gerdes in the late fall of 1999 & has been serving the greater DC area for 25 years. From our roots at the first meeting in Glenn Rosenbluth's basement, WAMAS has grown to be one of the larger reefing clubs in the United States. WAMAS previously hosted the 2005 & 2015 Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA). In addition, the club is a registered 501(c) non-profit education society, and has supported many reef-related events and causes over the years such as the establishment of an endowment fund at NOVA Southeastern Univ. to support a marine biology scholarship; donations to: Coral Restoration Foundation; Great Barrier Reef Legacy & Forever Reef Project; Coral Morphologic Labs, as well as numerous smaller grant awards to support local teachers, students, and other scientific research. - Zoom call with WAMAS Founder Dr. Michael Gerdes - Potluck lunch - Special WAMAS 25th Anniversary items - Door Prizes - First 50 guests get a $10 Reef eScape livestock gift card (upgradable to $20 by signing up for their newsletter) - 50/50 cash drawing (benefit WAMAS) - FREE Frags - White Elephant - frag exchange gift table (bring a frag(s), get a frag(s) - bring frag(s) & get extra tickets for chance to win frag(s) from frag tables Come celebrate with us at this event. ** INTERESTED in helping make this event a success - please send an email to officers@wamas.org or send a message to me or any of the officers and let us know you are interested in helping. Thanks to these sponsors for supplying coral frags or gift cards for the event:

Thanks to all the members who came out to the Reefing USA show Sunday & supporting the event. Special thanks to Curtis, Garrett, and the three Mike's for your time and help before, during, and after the event.

Thus Sunday. Hope to see many of you there.

As an update - my only complaint thus far using an AIO tank is that the anemones - when want to split - like to find a dark area. In this tank, they seek to squeeze through the overflow teeth and into filter area where more dark. And when they do that they block flow of water, causing ATO to add more water for the short period; then I wake up and find anemone and excess water. So far it has not overflowed, but bit annoying. I did recently buy a used MP 10 and got he nem-guard so maybe they will be happier with more flow. Finally, the 4 have split and now 7 in system.

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About time for a Fall 2024 update. Hope things and you are well, Paul.

Friendly reminder as we head into a long weekend & cooler temperatures that it is a good time of year to check your heaters & verify they are operational. Always a good idea to have a backup or two on hand as well in case you need it later in the year. Happy reefing!

Still could use 1-2 more people to help at Reefing USA. Even it it's just the first 1-2 hours that would be helpful to share the load and help the club. Thanks

Washington DC Vendor Line up! • 2 weeks away!

We needed to collect your contact info to send to Reef Nutrition. Team was not to send you home with paper copy of raffle prize sheet. Thanks

Make plans to come on out to the Coral Show - just 2 weeks away on Sunday October 20.

Great meeting. Dr. Mike Henley was fantastic, and neat to learn the work being done with corals with Cryopreservation. Thanks to all who came out. Special thanks to all the officers and volunteers who help make the meeting happen.

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Still need more help - especially for the Reefing USA Coral Show. If you can help out you can get early access to the coral vendors and pick some livestock before the doors open as a thank you for your help. Some of the know coral vendors at Reefing USA show - full list should be coming out soon. Lot of out of state/region coral vendors. - Jason Fox Signature Corals - Cherry Corals - Coveys Coral Cove - Eye Candy Corals - Oceanic Gardens Hope you can attend and find that fresh cherry or signature coral for your reef display.

FYI - Champion Lighting & Supply is coming on board as a Platinum Sponsor of the club. They are sending a box of items from their Blueline product line. I should get the box tomorrow and we will add an item(s) from Champion to the raffle list (and save some for future meetings). Thank you Champion for your support of the club! Please support all our sponsors when possible in sourcing equipment or livestock for your reef, and be sure to thank them for their support of WAMAS. You can find the list and links to sponsors websites on our Sponsor page.

Hope to see many of you at the meeting Saturday. Lots of pre-meeting sales taking place in the For Sale/WTB/Free forum in the members-only area of the forums - including some amazing high-end SPS frags.

Hi All, WAMAS is run 100% by volunteers. We are a registered non-profit, & none of the officers are paid. We are in need of help for several events this fall to help make club events successful. If you can help out at one or more of these events, or with the other tasks listed please reply, reach out to me or any of the officers via a DM, or send an email to officers@wamas.org and let us know where you have time to help. * Webmaster - assist with updates to main website pages Fall meeting - Oct. 5 * need 1-2 volunteers to assist with helping run checking in members & guests at welcome desk; * setup & tear down * volunteers arrive at 12:30 for setup - stay until 5:00 pm for cleanup current Volunteer list: Salty Rambler Reefing USA coral Show - Oct. 20 (Tysons Marriott) * 2-3 volunteers to help sell admission at the door and hand out welcome bag; * 2-5 additional volunteers to help sell raffle tickets, watch over raffle table, and represent the club; * arrive by 10:00 to help with setup; can be done around 2:00 (after wamas raffle) (separate show free door prize drawing at 1:00) current Volunteer list: Gastone, Skicurtis, Milton, Kingman, monstamich WAMAS Holiday Party - Dec. 14 (Noon - 3:00) * volunteers needed to help with party planning group; * volunteers needed to lead organization of pot-luck; * decoration team; * setup & tear down; * volunteers needed to help with touch tank - setup would start at 11:00 am - main event would be around noon. Need to finish cleanup by 4:00 pm - planning help - participate in some zoom calls and help organize pot-luck and other event things. Thanks for your help & time! Craig

Was able to source a used gen4 radion. Nems split and now 6. Only issue so far is one of the nems walked and blocked overflow which caused pump suck air & topoff to add water. Good thing kid was up late and alerted me to issue. The female is mean & doesn't like my hand in tank to move things.